Fungal Plant Pathogens in Agricultural Crops: Diversity, Detection, and Control
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Protection, Diseases, Pests and Weeds".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 August 2025 | Viewed by 549
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant pathology; alternative plant protection; biological control
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Interests: biocontrol agents; fungi; biological control; postharvest; plant disease; epidemiology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fungal plant pathogens in agriculture cause a significant threat to food production worldwide. Early disease identification, detection, and control are critical. In modern agriculture, ensuring relatively constant quality yield is essential. Nowadays, there is a need for biological and chemical plant protection methods to interact in agriculture. Biological diversity, resistance, agronomic practice, disease forecasting, biological fungicides, sustainable use of fungicides, and different schemes of plant protection during cultivation and disease control are important in plant protection. There is a demand for environmentally friendly and safe human health products.
We invite researchers to submit original scientific articles, reviews, and communications that address plant protection technologies, plant pathogens, disease diversity, and disease and pathogen detection and control; we also welcome manuscripts related to fundamental and applied research.
Dr. Neringa Rasiukeviciute
Dr. Antonieta De Cal
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pathogens
- detection
- diversity
- control
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